Faculty Learning Communities

What is a Faculty Learning Community?

A Faculty Learning Community (or FLC) is a group of interdisciplinary faculty who
engage in an active, collaborative, year-long program. Each FLC focuses on researching
and testing a scholarly and pedagogical topic that is important to the larger academic
community.

Once the FLC begins, participants attend monthly meetings that include teaching and
learning activities, development and training opportunities, and community building.
An important component of an FLC is an emphasis on the scholarship of teaching and
learning. Thus, participants will read the faculty development literature and design
individual or small group projects for their department or college that allow the
assessment and evaluation of these efforts, suitable for presentation or publication
in a professional journal.

The LT&ITC, with major support from the Office of the Provost, offers support for
several Faculty Learning Communities each academic Year. The program includes a curriculum
about enhancing faculty development with regularly-scheduled meetings and activities
that provide participants with opportunities pertaining to the FLC’s major focus.

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